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Anita N. Newman, MD; Stephen P. Becker, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1981;107(2):117-119.

Abstract
• A case of an isolated superior laryngeal nerve paralysis from a thyroid adenoma is presented. Superior laryngeal nerve paralyses should be sought, particularly in the preoperative and postoperative examination of thyroidectomy patients. Symptoms of a change in vocal strength or pitch and aspiration along with the laryngoscopic findings of a glottis posteriorly rotated toward a bowed vocal cord are diagnostic. Surgical trauma to the superior laryngeal nerve, though a risk of any thyroidectomy, usually can be avoided if one knows its possible anatomic variations and meticulously dissects the superior thyroid pole and its vessels.

(Arch Otolaryngol 107:117-119, 1981)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 21, 1980.

Reprint requests to 428 N Orange Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (Dr Newman).

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